Balanced Budgets and American Politics /

Balanced Budgets and American Politics / / James Savage.

A topical issue but hardly a new one, the concern for balancing the federal budget has been a perennial source of conflict in American political life. In Balanced Budgets and American Politics, James Savage explores the causes and development of the nation's preoccupation with this issue. Savag...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Savage, James,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1990
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 24 tables, 3 graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • 1. Balanced Budgets and Symbolic Politics
  • 2. The Economics of Deficit Spending
  • 3. Colonial Deficits, Constitutional Restrictions, and the Rise of Hamiltonian Government
  • 4. Creating a Symbol: Balanced Budgets and the Concept of Corruption
  • 5. Distorting a Symbol: Republican Party Government, 1861-1932
  • 6. Transforming a Symbol: Democratic Party Government, 1933-1980
  • 7. Coming to Grips with a Symbol: Ronald Reagan and Unbalanced Budgets
  • Appendix 1. State Debts and the Development of Off-Budget Spending,1860-1984
  • Appendix 2. The Reagan Budget Battles, FY 1982-1985
  • Appendix 3. Federal Receipts, Expenditures, Surpluses, Deficits, and Debt, 1789-1984
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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